Events

ELHS member, local historian and popular entertaining public speaker Alan Wenham returns, with an illustrated talk and account of all the gaffes and disasters as Eastbourne developed, but never made their way into the public books.

ELHS Hon Secretary Warwick Davis will present an illustrated talk on Beachy Head, without mentioning the light houses once. Warwick is a member of the Beachy Head Ambassadors and Eastbourne Downland Group delegate for BHA and also ELHS. Warwick has a passion for this area close to our town.

Revered ELHS member, popular speaker and keen deltiologist Paul Jordan presents an illustrated talk about why he collects postcards, and how he dates them through, fashion, newspaper headlines, film posters etc; Paul also looks at the messages sent and how the same view changes over the years, and some "boring ones" asking why would someone send a postcard like that ?

We welcome back Kim Adams and Kim will take a look back at Eastbourne in the 1960s. Particular focus on buildings, governance and recreation. This was a time of rapid change when the town was responding to developments in national policy as well as technological and cultural changes. The talk will give examples of some of the initiatives in the town during that decade, including the new library and the Congress Theatre and will include a comparison between the success of South Cliff Tower (including the true story of the much maligned Cllr Katie Underhay) with the failure of Langney Court.

Photo credit: Derek Manktelow